Heh... well, that's the goal. Doesn't hurt to go at it from more than one direction, though, so I'll do my best. The last thing my past self ever wanted was for this thing to hurt someone I loved... and now, all I want is to make sure it never does that – or worse – again.

[But, ah, yes. She's hit the nail on the head, which doesn't surprise him.]

...Yeah.

Back in December, when I first started remembering things, I remembered being in the cockpit of something, staring down a giant blue robot. [A pause, then a scoff.] I told you it only got more anime from there.

But I remembered it – or, rather, who was in it – talking to me, and I remembered how much it hurt to hear how... dead they sounded before they kicked my ass.

And I've been trying ever since to pretend I didn't know exactly who was in there, but there's no denying it anymore. I don't know how or why, but I know Crow betrayed us in our past lives. Even if Crow hadn't confirmed it himself on Retrospec, my memories have.

[And as hard as that was to admit, the next part is clearly harder.]

When you attacked him... I didn't even see you. I was back in that cockpit again, and the two of us were facing off against another robot. Red, this time. Crow went charging forward, it stabbed its tail into the ground...

[He swallows hard, staring down at the table.]

And it came out in front of and went straight through Crow.

["I'm fine! It barely scratched me!" Rean wants to believe those words, but... he'd just be lying to himself again, wouldn't he?]

And all I could think was "not again, never again—" and that's when I lost it.